Brava Presents
Spanking Machine
Written/Performed by MARGA GOMEZ
Directed by ADRIAN ALEXANDER ALEA
THE MARCH RUN OF SPANKING MACHINE HAS BEEN POSTPONED
In Spanking Machine, GLAAD Award-winning writer/performer and Brava artist-in-residence Marga Gomez shifts across gender, latitudes and generations in a darkly comic memoir about the first boy she ever sloppy-kissed and how it made them gay forever. “His real name was Agamemnon Perez Jr. but he shortened it to “Scotty” because he thought Agamemnon sounded too Cuban.”
Although Gomez had sworn to never write a 13th solo play (because of her superstitious nature) she changed her mind when an unexpected email from “Scotty,” promising decadent perks in Miami, lured her to a complicated 40-year reunion. By turns witty and disturbing, Spanking Machine recounts sadistic nuns on poppers, tender vampires, barrio life, childhood misdemeanors, parental post-nasal drip, fear, assault and suppressed memory.
Spanking Machine has been commissioned for a New York premiere at Dixon Place, NYC in July 2020. See it at Brava first! Limited studio seating.
75 minutes with no intermission
ABOUT THE ARTISTS
Marga Gomez is the writer/performer of thirteen solo plays which have been presented locally, nationally, and internationally at the Edinburgh Festival and the Montreal Just For Laughs Festival. As a Brava artist-in-residence, Gomez also curates a monthly stand-up series, “Who’s Your Mami Comedy” on the second Thursday of the month in Brava’s Cabaret. Her acting credits include theatre roles: Campo Santos production of “Translating Selena” (January 2020), Off-Broadway Ars Nova production of “Dr. Rides American Beach House” (November 2019), Central Work’s “King of Cuba” (July 2018); television: “Sense8” (Netflix); and film: “Sphere” (Warner Brothers.) Gomez teaches solo performance online and in San Francisco at The Kearny Street Workshop, A.C.T and Brava. NBC named her one of eleven “Out Latinos you should know.” For more information visit margagomez.com.
Adrian Alexander Alea is a creative director and producer raising the social consciousness of humanity through storytelling in non-profit and commercial industries and is the upcoming creative associate for New York City Center's ENCORES!. Upcoming: “Thoroughly Modern Millie” (Assoc. Dir, ENCORES!). Recent: “HERCULES” (Assoc. Dir, Disney Theatricals and The Public Theater), “Henry VIII” translated by Caridad Svich (Play On, Classic Stage Company, Oregon Shakespeare Festival), “STAND” by Caridad Svich (New Dramatists), “Fucking A” by Suzan-Lori Parks (Yale University), and “Spanking Machine” by Marga Gomez (Syracuse Stage, Solo Artist Residency). BA (Columbia University). MS (Northwestern University). adrianalea.com